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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave… — Han Suyin
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:… — Rabindranath Tagore
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair… — Joseph Murphy
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. — George Santayana
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps. — P.J. O'Rourke
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the… — Michael Faraday
Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers,… — Parley P. Pratt
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in… — Thomas Jefferson
European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a… — Willard Gaylin
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we… — C. V. Wedgwood
In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us… — Lester Bangs
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,… — Charles Buck
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to… — David Puttnam
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for… — James F. Byrnes
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of… — Julian Baggini
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells… — Daniel Gilbert
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept… — Edward H. Levi

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